Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-07-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

P. Stephen Hunter has been appointed to
succeed Hon. r. NJ. T. Hunter as collector
of customs at Tappahannock.
DR.. John l.. Buchanan, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, says that the summer
institutes which arc now being held in diff
ferent parts of the State are progressing
finely.
The coupon cases against the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company came up in
the Richmond Circuit Court yesterday, and
on motion of the defendants counsel were
removed to the q. S. Circuit Court.
Mr.. James e. Armstrong, of Aqua dis
trict, Stafford county, one day last week
got out from the stump forty railroad ties
This is the greatest days work on record in
that county in that line of work. To get
out fifteen is considered q fair days work.
Another heavy rain storm visited the vi
cinity of Brooke, Stafford county, last Satur-
day, doing great damage. A corn field Of
Mr. Allan p. Jones was almost completely
ruined. MIR. Henry Edwards lost all Of his
wheat crop in a meadow on Accokeek Rum
and the Brooke mill and mill.racs was
damaged to the amount of 5000.
The hardware store of A. B. Robinson, in
H. Evans & Bros building on Main street,
Winchester, and the stock. valued at S. 900,
was ruined by fire and water yesterday.
Insurance $1,000 1t is supposed the fire
was caused by mice igniting matches on
the shelves. G. w. Hersell, dry goods
dealer, in the same building, sustained
damage by water estimated at 5000, covered
by insurance.
Governor Lee has written a letter TO the
sheriff of Prince Georges county declining
to respite Holmes Puryear, sentenced to he
hanged on July IA for the murder of his
wife. AS legal contest is going on in
the courts over the sheriffalty, that officer
asked the executive to respite the con-
demned man until decision is reached.
This the Governor did not consider suf
fcient reason for interference.
In the U. S. Circuit Court at Norfolk in
the case of the Southern Telegraph Com
PAW Yesterday decree was entered di-
recting that dividend of 22l per cent. of
the bonds be paid, and special commits
sioner was appointed to make the dividend.
In the same court yesterday Patrick
Breen and Richard Woods sesmen on the
schooner VIM 3. Morse, charged with at
tempting to kill their ca plain, were sent to
Jail for thirty days.
OcSplt0 WIG ibJubStioh ny VutSp
Bond, restraining county treasurers and
other State officers from instituting suits
under the coupon crusher" act, the Com.
mon weath's attorney of Loudoun has COM
menced 200 such suits in that county
though he was served with a notice of the
injunction, and Judge Bond has made an
order requiring the Commonwealth attor-
new and treasurer of Loudoun to show cause
before him at Richmond. on the 2Sth why
they should not be punished for contempt.
The U. S. Marshal has gone to Loudoun 10
serve this order on the officers.
Miss Margaret Elliott, prepossessing
young lady of good family and repute, re-
siding in Rock bridge county, attacked
David Clark on Monday with a pistol and
fred three shots at him. One of the bullets
cut Clark's neck slightly under the lefG ear,
but he was not otherwise injured. The
cause for the attack is said TO have been the
circulation by Clark of sIanderous reports
affecting Miss Eliott's reputation There
is much excitement over the affair, aud II is
feared that further trouble will en>ue, rs he
girls friends threaten harsh treatment OF
Clark if he persists in refusing TO retrect
the statement he is alleged to have made.